Please join the department in welcoming Carson Fox this Monday for a Noon Lecture in Falvey Hall.

Carson is a printmaker and sculptor whose work shows a dedication to craft, showcasing a wide variety of media and subject matter, from classical intaglio printmaking, to punched paper, cast resin and woven hair.

From Juxtapositions:

Carson Fox will discuss her mixed media sculptures, installations, and prints infl uenced by a heritage of Southern gothic tradition that relies heavily on the individual experiences of the artist. Fox will chronicle the past 10 years of her labor-intensive works that include intricately wrought hair filigrees; hand-manipulated giclee prints; and cast resin flower, snowflake, and icicle sculptural installations. Her work can be found in the Museum of Arts and Design (New York), The Royal Museum of Belgium, and other permanent collections.

Carson will be lecturing at Noon in Falvey Hall on Monday, April 11, as part of the Sr. Thesis Visiting Artist Lecture Series, AND as the Printmaking Department’s Mixed Media Lecturer for the year.

Monday, April 11, Noon
Falvey Hall, Brown Center

More of Carson’s work can been seen on her website: www.carsonfox.com

More photos of her work after the jump: (more…)

Due to yet ANOTHER incoming snowstorm, Sue Gosin’s visit has been postponed until February 15th.

Details will be posted as the date approaches.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

We have THREE (3) end-of-the-semester Visiting Artist lectures, ALL lunchtime lectures, all in the next two weeks. (!!!)

Brian Garner will be presenting an artist-lecture at Noon in Brown 413 on Monday, December 6th.

Elvia Perrin will be presenting an artist-lecture at Noon in Brown 413 the next day, Tuesday December 7th.

Robert Tillman will be presenting an artist-lecture at Noon in Brown 413 on Monday, December 13th.

These are going to be very informative, interesting, and excellent lectures. We strongly encourage you to attend ALL THREE of them.

We know it’s finals week, we know you’re busy, we know it’s crunch time.

Trust us on this. Bring your lunch and find them time – they will be great!

Take a break from everything else and come! It’s ONLY your lunch hour!

Thanks! See you there!!

Last minute notice for everyone –

Friend of the department Aaron Cohick is presenting tomorrow (thursday!) in Laurie Snyder’s Artist Book class.

Aaron is a 2002 MICA alumnus who went on to receive his MFA in Printmaking from Arizona State in 2007, and now works as the head printer for The Press at Colorado College.

Since his days at MICA, Aaron has printed and published under the name Newlights Press, producing personal and collaborative artist books, prints, and broadsides.

Find him tomorrow in Station 101, our Book Arts space, at 1 PM.

Anyone interested in self-publishing, handmade books, zines, and the like should not miss this for anything.

Photo nicked from Alphabetilately’s 2009 Zine Fest page.

Laura Gencarella, a 2002 MICA Printmaking alumna, and PR & Marketing Manager for the IFPDA Print Fair, will be here for critiques and two (2 !!) presentations on Monday, October 11th.

From 11AM – 12 Noon on Monday, Laura will be talking about life and work after graduating from MICA. Since graduation, Laura has worked a myriad of jobs in the print world, from freelance, to Art on Paper Magazine, to the David Krut Gallery, and now for IFPDA. This will be an incredibly informative presentation to hear and an ideal time to ask questions in an intimate setting.

Then, at 1:30, Laura will be talking about the 2010 IFPDA Print Fair, taking place this November in NYC. Anyone attending the Print Fair this year should definitely attend.

Both lectures are open to anyone. They will be taking place in our 3rd floor computer lab (intimate, I told you!) this Monday.

See you there!

The Printmaking Department invites you to see Jonathan Thomas, Artist, Printmaker, and new Faculty at MICA, present his work this coming Monday, October 4th.

Jonathan comes to MICA after 6 years on faculty at the University of Miami in Florida. Previous to that he taught at Indiana State University, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and Arte Moris in East Timor. He was an Artist in Residence at Anchor Graphics in Chicago, and has exhibited in the Tampa Museum of Art, in the Trudi Gallery and the Jack Hanley Gallery in Los Angeles, the Rental Gallery in New York, and 20/20 Projects and Bas Fisher Invitational in Miami, Florida.

See more of his work here.

Jonathan Thomas’ lecture begins at 12PM sharp in Falvey Hall. Come one, come all, don’t be late!

See you then!

For those of you who already knew about his visit, Book Artist Paul Johnson’s lecture and demo next week in the Laurie’s Artist Book class has been canceled due to VOLCANO (didn’t see that one coming, did you!?!)

A volcano in Iceland is spewing out so much ash that flights from europe are canceled, not due to visibility but because the cinders in the ash will damage engine components.  Ominous eh?:

I know, it’s almost like it’s out of some movie somewhere!

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Juuuuuuuuust kidding  - – it looks like this.

Read more about it here if you’re interested.

Any word on Paul Johnson’s reschedule will be announced asap.

Enjoy your weekend!

ATTENTION: VENUE CHANGE!!
José Roca will be speaking in Main 110 tomorrow (Wednesday) at 12:30,
(not in Brown.)

José Roca, Chief Curator and Artistic Director for Philagrafika 2010 will be on campus this week.

Deja vu you say? NO! He was snowed out back in February.

José Roca kicks off his visit with an Art @ Lunch lecture in Brown 320 MAIN 110 on Wednesday, April 7th at 12:30.

From the Philagrafika Website:

José Roca is a Colombian curator working out of Bogotá and Philadelphia, where he is currently Artistic Director of Philagrafika 2010. He managed the arts program at the Banco de la República in Bogotá for a decade, establishing it as one of the most respected institutions in the Latin American circuit.

Roca was a co-curator of the I Poly/graphic Triennial in San Juan, Puerto Rico (2004), the 27th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil (2006), the Encuentro de Medellín MDE07(2007), and of Cart[ajena], a series of urban interventions in Cartagena, Colombia (2007). He was a jury for the 52nd Venice Biennial (2007).

Recent curatorial projects include: Muntadas: Mechanisms of the Image, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil (upcoming 2010); Välparaíso, a series of urban interventions in Valparaíso, Chile (upcoming 2010); Other Florae, Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil (2008); Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence, traveling exhibition co-organized by iCI and the Museo de Arte del Banco de la República (2007-2009); Botánica Política, Sala Montcada/La Caixa, Barcelona (2004); Traces of Friday: art, tourism, displacement, ICA, Philadelphia (2003).

In addition to his lecture, José Roca will be conducting a number of critiques in the Printmaking Department.  Critiques will take place from 2:30-5;30 on Wednesday, and 10-12 / 1-3 on Thursday, in the 3rd fl computer lab (and possibly 1st floor Etching area… we shall see!)

Those receiving critiques have already been chosen, but we are encouraging anyone interested (this means YOU) to sit in and participate at these times.

Critiques will be approximately 45 minutes long.

If you are remotely interested in the world of contemporary print, you will be sorely disappointed if you miss this.

Attn. All:

Due to inclement weather, and the threat of even MORE inclement weather, José Roca’s critiques and lectures, scheduled for tomorrow and Wednesday, February 9th and 10th, have been postponed until the Spring.

José Roca has promised a return trip on March 31st and April 1st.

So sorry for the last minute notification, but obviously this is out of our hands.

Details to come as they made available.

Jose Roca, the Chief Curator and Artistic Director for Philagrafika will be HERE this coming Tuesday and Wednesday, February 9th + 10th.

Tuesday, February 9th he, along with Eve Laramee, will be critiquing a selection of Printmaking Majors in Dolphin, beginning at 2 PM.

Students are encouraged to attend and join in the discussion in these critiques. And even if you do not have anything to contribute, you will be in the presence of two excellent critics. Rest assured these will be very exciting.

Critiques will run from 2PM until about 5PM, beginning in Silkscreen and finishing in the 3rd Floor Computer Room. Please attend, even if you can only attend part of the event.

THEN:

Jose Roca is lecturing on Wednesday at 12:30 PM in Brown 320.
This is a mandatory lecture for all Printmaking Majors and Concentrators.

This is an Art at Lunch event. Please contact the faculty for your Wednesday classes and tell them you will be late returning from lunch because of this lecture. He will be speaking on his role organizing Philagrafika, which kicked off last week.

This is the ideal start to the 3-month long Philagrafika festival, and a perfect primer for all of you to attend the Philly festivities!

You have no reason to miss this, we’ll see you there!